GIPSY MOTH CIRCLES THE WORLD the sixty Five year Old Navigator's own account of His 226 Day Lone Voyage Including the Conquest of Cape Horn Gymnastics (Books) ISBN13: 9780375720451 ISBN10: 0375720456 Material

ISBN13: 9780375720451 ISBN10: 0375720456 Material Type: paperback

ISBN13: 9781599185361 ISBN10: 1599185369 Material Type: paperback

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GIPSY MOTH CIRCLES THE WORLD the sixty Five year Old Navigator's own account of His 226 Day Lone Voyage Including the Conquest of Cape Horn Gymnastics (Books) ISBN13: 9780375720451 ISBN10: 0375720456 MaterialThis work tells the story of Frances Chichester, who aged 65, set out alone from Plymouth in his 53 foot ketch "Gypsy Moth VI" in August 1966 and sailed eastward around the world through the wild Southern Ocean, stopping only once the first to accomplish this in Sydney. Only nine yachts had previously circumnavigated by way of Cape Horn, and of them six had been capsized or somersaulted at least once. This 28,000 mile voyage, completed in May 1967,